Nasa urged to hunt down alien probes with fleet of spaceships by Harvard space genius
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
29 Dec 2020, 17:28
Updated: 29 Dec 2020, 17:42
A FAMED Harvard scientist has called for Nasa to send spacecraft to hunt for alien probes.
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb has said we shouldn t just be focusing on mysterious radio signals in the hunt for alien life but also looking for unusual space objects.
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Loeb proposes in a new essay for Scientific American that there could be objects in our Solar System that are like a message in a bottle from alien life.
The scientist thinks space agencies should be launching space probes to “search for technological civilizations across interstellar distances”.
Astronomers studying mysterious radio waves, search for life in universe
Narrow beam of radio waves was picked up by Parkes telescope in April and May of last year
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A group of astronomers are studying if we are really alone in the universe after puzzling radio waves were detected in Australia.
The narrow beam of radio waves was picked up by the Parkes telescope in April and May of last year, according to The Guardian.
The report says that scientists believe those radio emissions came from the direction of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star 4.2 light years from earth, also known as the nearest star to the sun.
Whilst not a transmission from an alien life-form, the signal can be used to understand the magnetic field of this and similar exoplanets, which in turn would help find out the properties of its atmosphere and interior, resulting in establishing how habitable it might be. If confirmed through follow-up observations, this radio detection opens up a new window on exoplanets, giving us a novel way to examine alien worlds that are tens of light-years away, said Professor Ray Jayawardhana of Cornell University, US, and co-author on the new research. The discovery comes as data collected from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia revealed another signal had been detected emanating from the region of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to us after our own Sun.
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A mysterious radio signal from our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, is being carefully investigated by a team of alien-hunting astronomers.
Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project – a £70m initiative to find alien life through radio telescopes – have been studying the radio waves since April 2019.
Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years from Earth and has two confirmed planets, a Jupiter-like gas giant and a rocky world called Proxima b in the habitable zone.
The signal was spotted by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia in April or May 2020, according to a report in The Guardian, and, unlike previous radio bursts hasn t been attributed to any Earth-based or near-Earth human-created source.